Category: Bay Area

Easter Sunday affords one of the most unique rides in the bay area. This ride started in the mid-1980s by a couple of hard-core vintage motorcycle riders and some good friends within the California State Parks. What is it? It's the annual sunrise ride to the summit parking lot of Mount Tamalpais. There's an optional... Continue Reading →

This is my first motorcycle ride back from the Sierras since moving to the East Bay and it was decidedly different in good and unexpected ways. I did my first long ride in almost 3 years. That in and of itself is awesome. When riding I'm often a stickler for mileage as it helps place me... Continue Reading →

Last year was the first year I was able to attend the South Bay Riders’ Toy Ride. Mike, a longtime motorcyclist here in the Bay Area, organizes this ride. Each rider is to bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Toys For Tots program. Some riders come out in full regalia, others with a touch of... Continue Reading →

Weather is a changin' Every rider once a year has that ride where he knows the weather as fully transitioned from warm weather to cool weather for the year. As motorcyclists we are fully in the weather. Going places means experiencing all that that place has to offer as well as everything in between. The... Continue Reading →

Tyler, a good friend of mine and a wonderful person in the motorcycling community, recounts a story that I never really understood. She was riding through Kern Canyon at night in the pouring rain. She spoke of that evening as a wonderful experience and as I listened intently I kept thinking what an awful ride... Continue Reading →

Up to the Mountain Top... Summer camp for many kids is a mountain top experience. It is the week or two during the year where they leave the daily routine of life behind and travel to the mountain for fun, friendships, and life experience. Camp De Los Niños is a week long camp in Boulder... Continue Reading →

The Bay Model is a fully functional representation of San Francisco Bay. Scientists in the 1940s and 1950s were looking for ways to understand the ecosystem around the bay. Since computer technology was not near as advanced then as it is today, scientists had an alternate solution. They built a to scale model of San... Continue Reading →

Wow, it's hard to believe a year has gone by. The Death Valley ride generally marks the closing of the riding season for the fair weather riders in California. The climate here is such that one can write a motorcycle from the Bay Area all year long. The destinations will differ by the season but... Continue Reading →

A few months ago a buddy and I went out hiking near the Green Gulch Zen Center. When I was first moved to California my future hiring manager took me to this hike. It's a steep, but short hike up to the ridge line and the hike has great views of San Francisco and the... Continue Reading →

Earlier in the week I was up in the city taking photos of the Bay Bridge at sunrise. People were talking about this so-called quote "super moon" this weekend. I heard through the web that there would be great photo opportunities at the Golden Gate Bridge. While websites like Meetup and Facebook are great to... Continue Reading →

A friend of mine, Matt, took a photo of the Bay Bridge and posted it on Facebook. I was very much intriuged by the photo and wanted to try my own to see if I could capture the same sort of sentiment. I had another "get up at the crack of dawn" to capture the... Continue Reading →

I was headed out to Arastradero park to see if I could find some poppies. I've seen them by the freeway a number of times this spring in good color. The park usually has some good flowers to photograph this time of year. I had the afternoon free, so I figured it was a good... Continue Reading →

Inertia is a very powerful thing. Because I am used to the Santa Cruz Mountains and love the ocean, I very rarely ride out in the East Bay. On top of that, I've never really been particularly fond of Mount Hamilton nor Sierra Road. Mount Hamilton is a slow technical ride. The road quality isn't... Continue Reading →

Easter morning brings about an interesting tradition amongst Bay Area motorcyclists. Depending on the weather anywhere from a few to a few hundred motorcycles gather at the top of Mount Tamalpias to see the sunrise. My first time at the event was in 2008 when the weather was good. Last year there was a big... Continue Reading →

It really has been a dry winter. Most of December, January, and February were sunny days in the mid 60s. Not a bad way to get through this thing called winter. However, to our benefit and dismay it is been raining most days in March. The whole week it has been raining. Most places rain... Continue Reading →

This was pretty much the perfect weekend to ride. It's been a fairly mild winter overall, but even so when a day pops up with clear skies and temperatures near the 70s it's time to ride! John came down from Sacramento and was interested in running some of the local roads up in the redwood... Continue Reading →

A number of years ago a roommate of mine stumbled up on a homeowner in the area that liked Halloween to a completely new level! Brent Ross, a local in Mountain View, stages a Halloween display that is pretty awesome. The display is fully mechanized and scripted. It fully covers his front yard and while... Continue Reading →

A good friend of mine was in town and was looking to do a little riding around the bay as he's often here on business and has never been riding out here. I didn't know much in the way of bike rental in this area other than Dubbelju and EagleRider. Rob however found something a... Continue Reading →

The rain and snow never really materialized over the Kings Canyon area so I was in luck. The weather was good and the loud as all get out stream was still rolling in the morning! Normally I just take 180 out to 99 to 152 to 101. CA-180 is a nice ride down to Sanger... Continue Reading →

So it's been a long time since I've done posting of riding adventures. The weather here has been a bit of boondoggle being so cold and wet this late into the year. We were supposed to get some sun on Thursday so I was looking forward to getting out and riding! I've wanted to catch... Continue Reading →